The new surgeon examined him, thought a while, and said, "yes, I can put you right."
After the operation, bandages off, stitches out, the patient returns to his hotel.
The morning after, in a rage, he calls his surgeon, and yells, "You swine, you gave me a woman's ears."
"Well, an ear is an ear, it makes no difference whether it is a man's or a woman's."
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